Leading Healthcare Industry looking for the right candidate to development, administration and maintenance of LAN and WAN infrastructure, ensuring 99.95% minimum availability. Primary responsibilities include support of current data network transport services. Includes routine maintenance, software and hardware upgrades, monitoring and troubleshooting. Optimizes performance and adapts network design due to physical alterations and traffic requirements. Ensures resiliency is implemented at crucial points in the network to guarantee maximum availability. Research, design and implement new network related initiatives. Includes mandates from business areas, enterprise driven projects, relocation of personnel and installations of new enterprise sites. Work along with other network engineers and IT areas on day-to-day tasks and projects. May be required to work on disaster recovery/business resumption initiatives.

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BS Degree in Information Management or a related field, with 3-5 years related experience and/or training in a routed network environment, multi-platform environment.  Equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of certification, however, this experience and skill level must be clearly demonstrated.  Must have previous experience with installation and configuration of routers, switches, bridges, gateways and hubs. This includes in depth knowledge of both networking hardware and software. Strong knowledge of networking media (LAN/WAN) is a must. Includes Ethernet, Frame Relay, ATM, TLS (Transparent Lan Switching) ISDN and HDLC based circuits. Must have the ability to interact with telecommunication companies. This includes the ordering, implementation and troubleshooting of telecommunication media. Thorough knowledge of TCP/IP and all relating protocols (OSI network model) is imperative. Need to possess exemplary diagnostic and troubleshooting skills. This includes experience with network monitor and troubleshooting tools. Includes packet analyzers (sniffers), media/cable testers and Network Management Systems (Netview, CiscoWorks2000 etc.). Knowledge of network security implementations (firewalls/access filters). $64k - $80k